Last Thursday, the Arizona Legislature failed to pass pieces of legislation that would shave about $400 million off of the state’s $2 billion budget shortfall. The special session was supposed to reconvene today, but it seems as though that’s not happening either.The proceedings were delayed — again — as Senate Republicans…
Considering the Cardinals dismal road performance last season, did you ever think you’d hear these words: The Arizona Cardinals are now 5-0 on the road. For the first time since 1948, back when the team was the Chicago Cardinals, the nomadic franchise has managed to win five games on the road after its 21-13…
The former home of Senator John McCain is going up for auction. Near Glendale and Central avenues, the house has 13 bedrooms, two guest houses, and 14.5 bathrooms. The auction price will start at $5.9 million…Queen Creek officials are asking residents to help decide on a slogan for the city. The…
The Chandler Police Department is looking for a guy who sped off after hitting a man with his car early this morning — an alarming trend here in the Valley of the Sun…
There’s a new bandit in town, and authorities have given him what is possibly the least-cool moniker since the infamous “Salon Bandit.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for the man it is calling “The First-Aid Bandit.”Don’t let the name fool you, this guy isn’t running around slapping Band-Aids…
The East Valley Tribune may have a new lease on life, just two weeks after the failing publication announced it would be closing its doors on December 31.At the time of the closure, Trib CFO Mark McEachen told employees that the closing might be “a good marketing tool” to lure…
A prolific Valley speeder wasn’t quite fast enough to escape the long arm of the Department of Public Safety.DPS officers had been looking for 29-year-old Elvis Amir Saloum since July and finally caught up with him Thursday at a mall near his Peoria home…
A new device developed by a British inventor supposedly kills lobsters “humanely” before they’re cooked.But when PETA attempted to bring the device to Arizona last weekend for a lobster bake fundraiser for the Child and Family Resource Center in Tucson, things didn’t quite go according to plan and PETA was…
Peoria police are looking for the person or persons responsible for robbing the home of a Peoria family. On the list of missing items: The ashes of the family’s dead son. Lindsay Grannis, the child’s mother, says when she came home yesterday afternoon, her garage door was wide open. When…
Representative Doug Quelland must give up his seat in the Legislature. Quelland was found to have violated campaign-finance rules earlier this year. Quelland plans to appeal the ruling in Maricopa Superior Court…A fire broke out in the auditorium at Red Mountain High School in Mesa last night. Fire officials believe the fire started…
Anyone want to go to a Phoenix Coyotes game, or is that a stupid question — the team has the lowest attendance record of any team in the NHL. What if you could sit in the lower level on the cheap? If that’s enough to lure you to Glendale, you’re…
Remember when banks were lending money to people that had no means of paying it back and the entire economy came crashing down?The Bank of America apparently has no memory of this because it just approved a $700 million loan to the Arizona state government, which happens to already be…
As we reported this morning, the special session of the Legislature was expected to be over today, and legislators were expected to agree on a number of cuts to help bridge the state’s $2 billion budget gap.That didn’t happen.In what is becoming almost tradition, the Republicans in the Senate came…
A former journalist at the now-Web-only Tucson Citizen is claiming that Gannett, the paper’s parent company, didn’t live up to its end of the bargain after the 138-year-old paper went bust back in May.Alice Flick, the longtime TC scribe, who wrote under the byline A.J. Flick, claims Gannett screwed her…
There seems to be a day designated for just about everything, and toilets are no exception.Today, November 19, is “World Toilet Day” and a group called “The World Toilet Organization” is encouraging Phoenicians to participate in a global event called “The Big Squat.”…
On Tuesday, the Department of Public Safety Announced it had arrested three people after finding 23 grenade casings and one live grenade in their possession. The weapons are suspected to have been headed to Mexico to fuel the drug wars going on between rival cartels. Coincidentally, a similar bust was…
The legislature’s third special session is set to come to a close today, after legislators have seemingly managed to cut about a quarter of the state’s $2 billion budget gap. The majority of the cuts fell in the lap of the K-12 education and social programs under the Department of Economic…
Two years after the employer sanctions law went on the books, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has filed its first case against a Valley business. County prosecutors say the Scottsdale Art Factory knowingly hired illegal immigrants. The county attorney has asked that the business fire all of its illegal employees and…
The Arizona Department of Transportation announced today that it has laid off 90 employees and that 25 more workers should expect to get the ax by the end of the year.”This is a perfect storm — our revenues are down, we are suffering from the use of state transportation funds for…
It certainly didn’t take long for Arizona Congressman John Shadegg to eat his words after the fallout from his latest rant on the floor of the House of Representatives.As we reported yesterday, Shadegg stood in front of Congress Monday night and warned New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg of a…
Since our last post about the Maricopa County detention officer found in contempt of court for taking the papers of a defense attorney in Maricopa County Superior Court, the County Attorney’s Office called us back.We asked Deputy County Attorney Tom Liddy, who is representing Officer Adam Stoddard in his contempt…
According to the sheriff, nobody tells his guys what to do except Sheriff Joe himself — not even Maricopa County Superior Court judges.This morning, a Maricopa County detention officer was found in contempt of court for taking documents out of defense attorney Joanne Cuccia’s files as she was addressing the…
